Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sunggeun Do

Youngsik Kim

Seunghyun Cho

Sangyun Kim

Gongheum Han

A memory device includes a word line driver circuit, which can advantageously reduce gate stress on a transistor using a lower high voltage that varies with a command, and an operating method of the memory device. The memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks, provides a high voltage or the lower high voltage to a variable high voltage line in response to a block select signal, and changes a level of the lower high voltage to a low voltage level, a medium voltage level, or a high voltage level based on the command. The memory device applies the lower high voltage to gates of P-type metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) transistors connected to a word line driving signal, which drives word lines of non-selected memory blocks among the plurality of memory blocks.

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Seongnam-si, South Korea

Sunggeun Do